The Longman Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice Book

All sections begin with "Introduction."

Forward by Christina Murphy.


Preface.


A HISTORY OF WRITING CENTERS: LOOKING IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR.

Robert H. Moore, The Writing Clinic and the Writing Laboratory.

Peter Carino, Early Writing Centers: Toward a History.

Judith Summerfield, Writing Centers: A Long View.

Joyce Kinkead, The National Writing Center as Mooring: A Personal History of the First Decade.

Elizabeth H. Boquet, Our Little Secret: A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions.

"THE IDEA OF A WRITING CENTER": BUILDING A THEORETICAL FOUNDATION.

Stephen M. North, The Idea of a Writing Center.

Stephen M. North, Revisiting 'The Idea of a Writing Center.'

Andrea Lunsford, Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center.

Eric Hobson, Maintaining Our Balance: Walking the Tightrope of Competing Epistemologies.

Christina Murphy, The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory.

Peter Carino, Theorizing the Writing Center: An Uneasy Task.

Terrence Riley, The Unpromising Future of Writing Centers.

DEFINING THE WRITING CENTER'S PLACE: ADMINISTRATIVE AND INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES.

Muriel Harris, Solutions and Trade-Offs in Writing Center Administration.

Mark L. Waldo, What Should the Relationship Be between the Writing Center and the Writing Program.

Karen Rodis, Mending the Damaged Path: How to Avoid Conflict of Expectations When Setting Up a Writing Center.

Jeanne Simpson, Perceptions, Realities, and Possibilities: Central Administration and Writing Centers.

Robert W. Barnett, Redefining Our Existence: An Argument for Short- and Long-Term Goals and Objectives.

THE PROCESS OF TUTORING: CONNECTING THEORY AND PRACTICE.

Kenneth A. Bruffee, Peer Tutoring and the 'Conversation of Mankind.'

Jeff Brooks, Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work.

Linda K. Shamoon and Deborah H. Burns, A Critique of Pure Tutoring.

Dave Healy and Irene L. Clark, Are Writing Centers Ethical?

Jean Keidaisch and Sue Dinitz, Look Back and Say 'So What': The Limitations of the Generalist Tutor.

Muriel Harris, Collaboration Is Not Collaboration Is Not Collaboration: Writing Center Tutorials vs. Peer-Response Groups.

John Trimbur, Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms.

Christina Murphy, Freud in the Writing Center: The Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well.

Thomas Newkirk, The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference.

Kristen Walker, Difficult Clients and Tutor Dependency: Helping the Overly Dependent Clients Become More Independent Writers.

Evelyn Posey, An Ongoing Tutor-Training Program.

WELCOMING DIVERSITY: MULTIPLE CULTURES IN THE WRITING CENTER.

Marilyn M. Cooper, Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers.

Ann DiPardo, 'Whispers of Coming and Going': Lessons From Fannie.

Judith Powers, Rethinking Writing Center Conferencing Strategies for the ESL Writer.

Julie Neff, Learning Disabilities in the Writing Center.

Judith Kilburn, Cultural Diversity in the Writing Center: Defining Ourselves and Our Challenges.

WRITING CENTERS AND WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP?

Ray Wallace, The Writing Center's Role in the Writing across the Curriculum Program: Theory and Practice.

Louise Z. Smith, Independence and Collaboration: Why We Should Decentralize Writing Centers.

Mark L. Waldo, The Last Best Place for Writing across the Curriculum: The Writing Center.

Muriel Harris, A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De Facto WAC Center/Writing Center.

Michael A. Pemberton, Rethinking the WAC/Writing Center Connection.

Christina Murphy and Joe Law, Writing Centers as Infostructures: Relocating Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change.

BEYOND THE PHYSICAL SPACE: TECHNOLOGY IN THE WRITING CENTER.

Eric Hobson, Straddling the Virtual Fence.

Peter Carino, Computers in the Writing Center: A Cautionary History.

Muriel Harris and Michael Pemberton, Online Writing Labs (OWLS): A Taxonomy of Options.

Dave Healy, From Place to Space: Perceptual Administrative Issues in the Online Writing Center.

David Coogan, Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Tutoring.

Irene L. Clark, Information Literacy and the Writing Center.